Sean Penn — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

The Travolta/Cage Project #56 The Thin Red Line (1998)

Terence Malick returned to filmmaking with 1998’s The Thin Red Line, a towering masterpiece completely ruined by John Travolta’s weird mustache.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinMarch 15, 2021Adrien Brody, John Travolta, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Terence Malick, Film, The Dissolve, The A.V Club, Ben Chaplin

The Travolta/Cage Project #49 She's So Lovely (1997)

Travolta does Cassavettes, sort of, in 1997’s She’s So Lovely, a darkly comic romantic psychodrama that pitted the Grease star against a VERY intense Sean Penn for the heart of a troubled young woman played by Robin Wright-Penn.

The Travolta/Cage Project, Travolta/CageNathan RabinDecember 22, 2020Sean Penn, John Travolta, Robin Wright-Penn, Robin Wright, James Gandolfini, John Cassavettes

The Travolta/Cage Project #6 Racing With the Moon (1984)

Nicolas Cage and Sean Penn learning about love and life and war in the lovely 1940s period piece Racing With the Moon.

The Travolta/Cage Project, Travolta/CageNathan RabinDecember 11, 2019Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn, John Bailey, Richard Benjamin, period piece, Elizabeth McGovern

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #73 Shanghai Surprise

One of you kind souls paid me to explore the many nadirs of Madonna’s film career, including the mind-bogglingly abysmal 1986 adventure romance Shanghai Surprise.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinOctober 23, 2019Madonna, Sean Penn, flop, My World of Flops